Correction: Minorities-HIV Story

From CDC National Prevention Information Network

June 30, 2003

In a June 27 story about HIV rates among minorities, the
Associated Press erroneously reported some results of a study by
the Michigan Department of Community Health and CDC. [The
summarized version of the story appeared in the June 27 edition
of Prevention News Update.]
The AP story incorrectly reported that 34 percent of black
men said they engaged in bisexual behavior, followed by 26
percent of Hispanic men and 13 percent of white men. Those
percentages were among HIV-infected men who had sex with other
men -- not among the general male population.

The story also erroneously reported that in metropolitan
Detroit, blacks represented 23 percent of the population but 87
percent of people living with HIV. According to the Department of
Community Health, blacks make up 22 percent of the area's
population and 68 percent of people there living with HIV.

Finally, the story erroneously identified the study as the
AIDS CARE study. Rather, the study will appear in the AIDS CARE
medical journal.

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